Two-Stage Micro-Grid Inverter With High PDF
Two-Stage Micro-Grid Inverter With High PDF
Two-Stage Micro-Grid Inverter With High PDF
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Published in IET Power Electronics
Received on 15th November 2012
Revised on 8th February 2013
Accepted on 22nd June 2013
doi: 10.1049/iet-pel.2012.0666
ISSN 1755-4535
Abstract: This study proposes a new two-stage high voltage gain boost grid-connected inverter for AC-module photovoltaic (PV)
system. The proposed system consists of a high-voltage gain switched inductor boost inverter cascaded with a current shaping
(CS) circuit followed by an H-bridge inverter as a folded circuit and its switches operate at line frequency. The switched
inductor boost converter (SIBC) has one switch operates like a continuous conduction mode. The maximum power of the PV
module is achieved through the SIBC circuit whereas the grid connection requirements are accomplished using the CS circuit
with the H-bridge inverter. The switch of the CS circuit is controlled with a sine wave modulation control scheme. The main
advantages of the new proposed system are high boosting gain, lower switching losses and reduces the ground leakage
current as all H-bridge switches operate at the line frequency. A 120 W prototype has been built and experimentally tested. It
has been found that experimental results have a good matching with the proposed analysis and simulation results.
Fig. 3 Performances of the SIBC gain and efficiency at differing operating and circuit parameters
a Comparison between the proposed SIBC and the boost converter boosting gain ratio
b Effect of the input voltage on the SIBC gain
c Efficiency of the SIBC for various values of input voltage
d Gain of the SIBC for various values of switch on-resistance
e Efficiency of the SIBC for various values of switch on-resistance
f Efficiency of the SIBC against input power for various values of input voltage
measured current are fed to the PI controller to generate the perturb-and-observe (P&O) for MPPT algorithm [27] has
sine wave MI which compared with a carrier signal to been adopted.
generate the signal for the CS circuit switch SW1. A 10 Some selected simulation results have been chosen to
kHz switching frequency carrier is employed for the CS demonstrate the performance of the proposed system. The
switch SW2. The folded cascade H-bridge inverter circuit PV module outputs; voltage, current and power are
switches signals operate at the line frequency switching and illustrated in Fig. 6. The simulation has been done at
they can be generated by comparing the normalised grid normal environmental condition. As a result of that, PV
voltage to zero voltage value as shown in Fig. 5. During the generates almost its normal values 35 V, 5 A, and 170 W.
positive half cycle; switches SW3 and SW6 are always ON CS switch SW2 signal and H-bridge inverter switches
whereas switches SW4 and SW5 are always OFF and vice signals are illustrated in Figs. 7a and b. It should be noted
versa. that, the CS switch operates at 10 kHz switching frequency
and all switches of the H-bridge operate at the grid line
frequency. The current of the CS circuit switch is shown in
4 Simulation result Fig. 7c. It is similar to a rectified sine waveform and this is
attributed to the proposed employed sinusoidal modulation
The proposed system has been simulated using PSIM control technique. Therefore the folded cascade H-bridge
software to verify the performance of the proposed circuit switches operate at the grid frequency to reforms this
configuration. Two PV modules of the BP485 85 W PV rectified sine to a sine waveform in phase with the grid
module are used [26]. The circuit parameters of the voltage. In addition, the output inductor before the grid is
proposed system and the electrical characteristics of the PV omitted because of its function is performed by the CS
module are shown in Tables 1 and 2, respectively. Grid circuit. The grid voltage and the grid current are shown in
voltage and grid frequency are 220 V and 50 Hz, Fig. 7d which indicates that the injected current into the
respectively. In this paper, the conventional grid is almost sinusoidal and in phase with the grid voltage.
Fig. 6 From top to bottom PV output, PV output current and PV Power, respectively
Fig. 8 Experimental waveforms of SIBC input and output voltage at 0.8 duty cycle
grid current harmonic spectra is shown in Fig. 10c which experimental efficiency of the proposed system in this case
indicates that harmonics are only distributed around the reaches about 82% (as the input voltage is less than 13 V
switching frequency of the CS circuit 10 kHz. The injected because of test limitation) which is matched with the
power to the grid is found to be about 54.8 W. The aforementioned analyses.